Nottingham Trent University prepare its way to the future with One Identity

Amanda Ferguson. I'm the infrastructure services manager for Nottingham Trent University. We had a very old system. Very complicated, very complicated to manage-- a person and a half to actually just keep it going, really. My DBA's are quite costly people in the greater scheme of things. So we're becoming monolithic and very, very hard to manage. So we made a big decision to try and change it. And it was a big decision for us, because we were in a very complicated environment. So because I can have one person with something like seven identities. Because a student can go from being an undergraduate to a postgraduate to a researcher to someone who does a little bit of teaching then becomes an alumni. And they kind of have several identities. So I had multiple identities on my Active Directory. So we want to try and sort all that out. One Identity stood out for us because of its flexibility. We had a very precise list of things that it needed to deliver for us. And we decided that there were some things we wouldn't compromise on. Then when you compared what you could get from the other options, it will-- they were costing more than a million pounds to deliver. And that was because we were paying for the people to do the customizations, whereas the One Identity product gives you things that are completely out of the box. It makes you safer so you don't have 400 people who shouldn't have access to certain things still having it if they change jobs, and all of that kind of thing. Identity and access management is essential for a modern organization. It's absolutely essential. And if you're trying to do it the old way, the way you've always done it, you are going to get left behind. Also, it really helps so you can work in our cloud provisioning as well. So we can seamlessly connect to whichever cloud provider we use, and that's very important to us as well I see One Identity being the pivot for us to connect into the cloud, to start using it better, to think about Docker and containerisation and all of that kind of thing. It will ease the way for us in the future.